Singapore legislation
Clause 18
Clause 18
Private persons making new streets
(1)
Every person who intends to make any new street shall give notice in writing thereof to the Director, accompanied by a plan in duplicate, showing the intended level and construction of such street and the level of the houses to be built on land abutting upon it and the proposed manner of draining it, and by a statement whether such street is intended for a carriage road, or for foot traffic only, in order that the same may be approved by the Director subject to compliance with such directions as may be given under subsection (2) of this section:Provided that the Director shall not approve the detailed plans of any new street unless the Competent Authority shall first have given written permission for the use of the land for this purpose under the provisions of the Planning Ordinance, 1959 (Ord. 12 of 1959).
(2)
The Director may give written directions to the person submitting a plan for a new street with regard to any of the following particulars: —
compliance with this Ordinance and any regulations made thereunder;
the line of the new street, so as to ensure that it forms a continuous street with any existing or proposed new street;
the level, material and construction of the new street;
the provision of footpaths and the size, specification and gradient of such footpaths;
the provision along the length of the new street of intersecting streets or back-lanes;
the width of the new street;
the width of any intersecting street or back-lane, which shall be of such width as the Director requires;
the gradients, levels and mode of drainage of the new street and of any intersecting streets or back-lanes;
the rounding of the corners of new streets; and
the provision of culverts and the specification, size, and gradient of such culverts.
(3)
The person to whom any such written directions are so given shall amend the plan accordingly.
(4)
The person whose plan has been approved by the Director and each successor in title of such person, so far as the street lies in the land acquired by him, shall lay out the new street and demarcate its boundaries by such boundary stones or other marks as are considered sufficient by the Director to denote the length, width and alignment of the street.
(5)
If the new street has not been laid out and demarcated within the period of six calendar months from the date when the plan was approved by the Director, the Director may enter upon the land and demarcate the boundaries of the new street at the expense of the person whose plan has been approved or of his successor in title.
(6)
Any person who removes, defaces or injures any stone or mark set to denote the length, width or alignment of such new street shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars.
(7)
Any person who —
constructs any new street otherwise than in accordance with a plan approved by the Director under this section;
erects any building on land abutting on a new street which has not been laid out in accordance with a plan so approved; or
erects any building or plants any hedge in such manner that any part thereof is, without the consent in writing of the Director, in any direction less than eighteen feet from the centre of the roadway of any street, not being a public street, or less than thirty-six feet from the opposite side of any road or path used or intended to be used as the means of access to two or more houses exclusive of the width of any footway which the Director requires; or
constructs any culvert on the line of the new street drainage otherwise than in accordance with the plans and specifications approved by the Director,shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and a Magistrate’s Court may, on the application of the Director make an order, which shall be deemed to be a mandatory order for the purposes of section 141 of this Ordinance, against the offender requiring him to execute any of the following works: —
to alter the street;
to alter any building so built;
to remove any building so built or any hedge so planted; or
to alter or remove any culvert so constructed.
(8)
If a new street has not been constructed by the person whose plan has been approved by the Director or by his successor in title so far as the street lies in the land acquired by such successor within the period of nine months from the date of the plan as approved by the Director, or such longer period as the Director may in any particular case allow, the Director may enter upon the land and construct the street at the expense of the person whose plan has been approved or of his successor in title so far as the street lies in the land acquired by him:Provided that for the purposes of this subsection any such plan approved under the provisions of section 142 of the Local Government Ordinance, 1957 (Ord. 24 of 1957), shall be deemed to be a plan approved under the provisions of this section.
(9)
Where any new street is stated to be intended for foot traffic only, the Director may impose such conditions for ensuring that the same shall not be used as a carriage road as he thinks fit.
(10)
Any person who keeps open or uses such street in breach of such conditions shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to a further fine not exceeding fifty dollars for every day during or on which the offence is continued or repeated.
(11)
No person shall erect or maintain or permit to be erected or maintained any obstruction in any such street, and the Director may, where any such obstruction exists, take down and remove the same.
(12)
For the purposes of this section the expression “new street” shall be deemed to include the continuation of an existing street or the widening or alteration of any existing street or the adapting of a street made for foot traffic only for carriage traffic.
(13)
If the person giving a notice under subsection (1) of this section is dissatisfied with any requisition or disapproval by the Director, he may, within seven days from the receipt of such requisition or disapproval, appeal to the Minister whose decision shall be final.
(14)
If the Director does not, within two calendar months from the delivery of a notice and the plan under subsection (1) of this section or of the date of the resubmission of such plan amended in pursuance of subsection (3) of this section, as the case may be, approve such plan, such plan shall be deemed to be approved unless the Director shall have previously disapproved the same:Provided that nothing herein shall be construed to exempt the person submitting such plan from otherwise complying with the provisions of this Ordinance or any regulations made thereunder.